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What do you think fighters look like?
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Chief Warrant Officer
Joined: Sat Nov 17, 2001 3:00 am Posts: 175 
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 Re: What do you think fighters look like?Mongoose wrote: Micro wrote: TradeWars fighters are considered to be unmanned, so they could be even smaller than that. I wish I could find a link to that TV show or article or whatever it was that gave me the idea of fighters as swarms of tiny smart bombs. It made a lot of sense as a prediction of what space warfare might actually be like, and fits perfectly with TradeWars. In ship-to-ship combat, the target launches its own fighters as a form of explosive reactive armor. And fighters get used up even against targets that don't fight back, like colonists. Yeah, they remind me of the Night Dawn trilogy where ships arm these little bots that have mostly energy weapons and fight other bots. You'd only use your ship as a weapon as a last resort. |
| Sun Jan 06, 2013 3:10 pm |
 
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Veteran Op
Joined: Tue Nov 28, 2006 4:04 pm Posts: 5025
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Re: What do you think fighters look like? mrdon wrote: Mongoose wrote: Micro wrote: TradeWars fighters are considered to be unmanned, so they could be even smaller than that. I wish I could find a link to that TV show or article or whatever it was that gave me the idea of fighters as swarms of tiny smart bombs. It made a lot of sense as a prediction of what space warfare might actually be like, and fits perfectly with TradeWars. In ship-to-ship combat, the target launches its own fighters as a form of explosive reactive armor. And fighters get used up even against targets that don't fight back, like colonists. Yeah, they remind me of the Night Dawn trilogy where ships arm these little bots that have mostly energy weapons and fight other bots. You'd only use your ship as a weapon as a last resort. What you guys are discribing aren't fighters at all, but more like missiles. Here's an article that explains the difference. http://worldofweirdthings.com/2011/12/30/why-space-fighters-would-actually-be-useful/ If you really wanted the one of the smallest space fighters that you could still actually call a fighter, it would probably be more in the lines of something like this:  |
| Sun Jan 06, 2013 3:23 pm |
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Ambassador  Joined: Wed Apr 20, 2011 1:19 pm Posts: 2559 Location: Oklahoma City, OK 73170 US
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Re: What do you think fighters look like? It's the quantity of fighters that never made sense to me. How can an escape pod have 50 fighters?
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| Mon Jan 07, 2013 4:01 am |
 
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Lieutenant J.G.
Joined: Mon Feb 26, 2001 3:00 am Posts: 441 Location: In your girlfriend's bed
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Re: What do you think fighters look like? And that's just the stock Escape Pod, Micro. I've seen edited pods with more fighters on it.
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| Mon Jan 07, 2013 1:05 pm |
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Commander  Joined: Fri Jun 09, 2006 2:00 am Posts: 1400 Location: Canada
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Re: What do you think fighters look like? Big D wrote: If all this is true, then they shouldn't even be called fighters because they don't actually fight. They really are missiles instead. It seems to me that FIGs were little drone-like robots that could stack onto a ship, and a single FIG-wave sent to an unmanned enemy ship would effectively take-it-over by hacking the computer.. or whatever.. I don't think FIGS as 'flying ships' could really make sense in the current TradeWars vernacular. _________________ ---------------------------- -= QUANTUM Computing 101: 15 = 3 x 5 ... 48% of the time. -= There are 10 types of people in the world: Those that understand Binary and those who do not -= If Oil is made from Dinosaurs, and Plastic is made from Oil... are plastic Dinosaurs made from real Dinosaurs? -= I like to keep my friends and my enemies rich, and wait to see which is which - Tony Stark (R.I.P.) |
| Mon Jan 07, 2013 2:20 pm |
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Gunnery Sergeant
Joined: Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:02 pm Posts: 23
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Re: What do you think fighters look like? Big D wrote: Xwing fighters are entirely possible and not all that big. http://gizmodo.com/305976/rocket+powered-21+foot+long-x+wing-model-actually-flies-updated-built+in-r2+d2 In case you missed its first (and final) flight, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGvMVn38Eu8 (skip to 2:45 to see the flight). An "alternate" version can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgF9hBL-CuA |
| Thu Jan 10, 2013 10:01 pm |
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Gunnery Sergeant
Joined: Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:02 pm Posts: 23
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Re: What do you think fighters look like? Timberwolf wrote: And that's just the stock Escape Pod, Micro. I've seen edited pods with more fighters on it. I was in a standard (max 50 figs in the pod game) when I ran into a bug in v103. I shot and killed someone the same time they fired at me and a qcannon put me in a pod. The end result was that I ended up in an escape pod with ~10,000 fighters. I couldn't pick up any more, of course. At least I could deploy the fighters. Not terribly useful, just a novelty. |
| Thu Jan 10, 2013 10:42 pm |
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